⭐┃nospoilers_general

[tacit oracle]

Obviously however, I can't attest to the veracity if that nor do I even remotely know when/if that update will drop, so ynow

[alpine hollow]

Thanks to you and @stiff pasture Malachite and Yaniv are green ! The Guide express is now affordable 🙂

Though Skif has to do at lot of cardio now between the condensed milk and oversleep

[flint cliff]

Hi.
I'm using a Diamond exoskeleton with maximum physical protection and five relics that increase durability, but when Ward attack me, they quickly decrease my durability. Is this normal?

[burnt prairie]

Context? Was it that area you're not suppose to be at ||(Chemical Plant)||? Did you get hit by explosives? Did you notice the ammo they had? Were some up high with Mark 1's?

[hardy pelican]

The camp's friendliness depends on the following actions:

1. Taking regular quests: Such as finding artifacts, killing enemies, killing mutants, delivering packages, etc. These repetitive quests can increase friendliness.

2. Faction choices in the main storyline: If there are skull icon attacks, or if you have to kill WARD soldiers during the main quest, it will cause negative effects, possibly even making the faction hostile (red).

3. Helping neutral NPCs: If you encounter a neutral NPC in the area, meaning their faction is not shown with a red triangle indicating hostility, and they are engaged in combat, helping them defeat enemies will improve friendliness.

However, Malachite and Yaniv are tricky. If you were previously hostile to IPSF or to the Mercenaries in dark blue camouflage, they will still spawn as hostile NPCs in these areas. If you encounter them and they witness you, the only option is to kill them. Therefore, your only real solution is to keep taking regular tasks.

The good news is that if you raise Yaniv's friendliness to green (friendly), the entire military faction will become friendly towards you.

[alpine hollow]

Thanks for this in depth reply !
point 2 has worked in my playthrough quite well as I helped both duty and freedom patrols against enemies.
Regarding the military faction in your last paragraph you mean Deggy’s Corps (dark grey uniforms) ?

[hardy pelican]

Yes, Degtyarev's Corps, or simply The Corps, they wear dark blue camouflage like mercenaries. Or the Prussian blue PSZ-9I 'Falcon' gear. Although it might be confused with the similar gray camouflage worn by the Monolithians, the Monolithians don't wear the PSZ-9I or mercenary gear, and they don't shout 'For the Monolith' like robots do, so it's still relatively easy to tell them apart.

However, if they're all hostile, it doesn't really matter...

If my memory serves me right, a camp needs at least 5 regular quests to reach 'Friendly' status. So, it's possible that by the end of the game, the camps north of Yaniv are still Neutral (white).

The biggest benefits of a Friendly faction are higher purchase prices, as well as a 25% discount on repairs and 50% off guide tips. However, if you want to save money, you can also simply fast-travel to the nearest Friendly camp to achieve the same effect.

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[normal comet]

wave

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/liffey-gif-8293684

[summer patio]

Anyone notice that when you use the stock sights for the G36 the arched frame on top isn't visible?

[oak rock]

They relaising 1.7 Same time as ps5 right ?

[light hollow]

Unknown, better to not expect it to drop at that date

[wraith socket]

I was kind of expecting it before that, but you never know.

[hasty wyvern]

is there some kind of way to reduce/disable head bobbing when sprinting? im literally getting sick from it. The ony solution i found was in reddit, but it did not work for me

[wraith socket]

Do you get motion sickness driving a car?

[hasty wyvern]

im not driving a car and headbanging like on a Slayer concert 😄

and also my windhield is not using DLSS XD

[wraith socket]

Well, don't headbang while playing Stalker 2. Problem solved.

[light hollow]

believe it or not, some people do get motion sickness in games, but they dont irl

my sister for example can't play fps, yet she can do daily stuff fine, even those that need some head movement

also, she likes metal, so she of course danced to the music hehe

[wraith socket]

People have been complaining about the head bobbing as far back as the first game in 2007.

[light hollow]

yeah, thats what I mean

[hasty wyvern]

seriously, that head bobbing in pair with blur from DLSS is making me not see a damn thing when i run, all objects are blury. I played countless hours in SOC and never had an issue

[light hollow]

yeah it's a think from modern engines/antialiasing stuff

and you say you use native, right?

[wraith socket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMzRI969qY

[hasty wyvern]

sadly, does not work, it is just AI reading the reddit post i mentioned 😄

[wraith socket]

Since you've already searched and are unable to get those things to work, I got nothing new for you.
Try taking some motion sickness medicine like Dimenhydrinate, also known as Dramamine and Gravol,
among others, is an over-the-counter medication used to treat motion sickness and nausea.

[hasty wyvern]

i am not actually getting naseous, but since everything gets so blury because of upscaling, it is just making my eyes tired veeeeery fast

[wraith socket]

Are you on PC or Xbox? If you are on PC, what video card do you have?

[hasty wyvern]

PC, 3080 TI

[wraith socket]

Try adjusting the various settings on your video card.

Turn off DLSS, for example.

[hasty wyvern]

ill give it a shot, thanks

[wraith socket]

Let us know if that works.

[oak rock]

Same ,im wating for my OLED for the game

[hasty wyvern]

it is better with DLLS off, but it still feels kind of weird compared to other games tbh.. i cant name it, but this head bob in stalker just feels different

[fierce ermine]

So... patch 1.6 supposedly nerfed Pseudogiant health. Has anybody unpacked the files to see how big a nerf it was?

[orchid gale]

Wack nerf

[wraith socket]

In a good or bad way?

[burnt prairie]

Probably in a way that 40 expanding darts don't have to be consumed for one pseudogiant

[fast stratus]

i used to play a game called air aussault or air hawk or air strike idk

it was based

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[rapid warren]

I used to play G-force, it was black OPS but with hamsters

It was peak

[tiny token]

It was with guinea pigs and it was based on the movie

Yea it was great lol

[rapid warren]

The best part is that you do have limited lifes so I never beat it as a kid, only years later during pandemic

[wraith socket]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-gif-4039999070380752334

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[thick wolf]

Do people think 1.7 is coming out this week?

[zinc apex]

Nah

They just started testing

[tacit oracle]

no

has there even been any talk of 1.7 being in active testing?

[thick wolf]

I thought so, yeah.

[tacit oracle]

oh, okay, well hope I'm wrong then

[zinc apex]

How big are the chances they release 1.7 with the ps5 release? Kinda day one patch

[tacit oracle]

all I've read is that "GSC is cooking" but nothing imminent

[thick wolf]

Game with Dave and Vatislavovych on YouTube have said patch testing has started

I'm guessing PS5 would launch with 1.7 or possibly 1.7.1

[drifting niche]

It was started a week ago

[tacit oracle]

I've been developing increasingly large trust problems with hypetubers regarding stalker 2, but I'll take vat's word for it I guess

[bold oxide]

i dont trust any hype

[zinc apex]

Vat is pretty humble tbf

[bold oxide]

i think this new update will just put rain on my visor and fix old bugs but add new ones

[tacit oracle]

I've read grumblings of possible updates more significant than that

but I know feck all about details and I'm kinda tired of people spreading misinformation so I'm not going to contribute to the problem.

[rapid warren]

Its been testing for a week so I think we can expect it in like 2 weeks

I think itll realase shortly before ps5

at least I hope

[zinc apex]

Yea probably

[tiny token]

testing started like a week ago

[zinc apex]

Yea that's pretty recently. In the past they had tests running several weeks

[thick wolf]

Cool cool cool

[zinc apex]

Tralalero

[rapid warren]

Tralala

[oak rock]

Remeber lads ,new Update gonna Rock ,i Hope they Release engine Update before my OLED arrive

[rapid warren]

It will,.both 1.5 and 1.6 were very impactful on gameplay

[rancid zephyr]

Hi, can you tell me why the free stalker headlamp isn't spawning at the mill in the Lesser Zone for me in the Ultimate version? He's supposed to be monitoring the BULBA anomaly at the bonfire, but he just isn't spawning there, and I can't complete his side quest. I've successfully finished the main quest, but he simply isn't spawning.

[coarse sparrow]

1.7 will add CNPP prayge

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

Unfortunate no luck with a new van

[dire dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/fact-check-false-fact-check-false-keepstock-gif-17821176312366660180

[silver warren]

Last mini update after 1.6 bricked my game. In woe I uninstalled and deleted the file for space... With my saves on accident. Let's hope 160 hours were saved to the cloud

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[zinc apex]

Ranjid never lets us down

[celest blaze]

Fr

[unreal fjord]

So master difficulty = 3000% hp for enemies?

[flint cliff]

What is master difficulty in update 1.7?

[twilit mist]

Has Master difficulty not been in the game since launch? Guess I forgot...

anyways when is 1.7 coming out?

[tiny token]

the hardest difficulty option that was in the OGs

it was missing in S2 until now

[twilit mist]

I wonder why... isn't it just quite the simple change? Just adjusting damage values and such?

[zenith creek]

Simple change, hard to balance for every weapon variant in the game and every enemy type

[flint cliff]

Have they introduced a new difficulty level? How is it different from the maximum one available until now?

[acoustic granite]

Would master be the difficulty where they go down just as quick as we do? That often feels like the best way to play.

[static star]

What does Master difficulty do in S2?

I know in older games it just made bullets across the board more deadly

[tiny token]

iirc in the OGs it was merely value changes but perhaps with the reintroduction of master into S2 they want to add special gimmicks

hopefully anyway

[nimble saddle]

Any new word on the DLC?

[urban basin]

they said they aren't cancelled and still plan to release the expansions they promised

[nimble saddle]

Is there a mod for S2 that unifies the damage of all weapons based on caliber and barrel length?

I wanted to enjoy the 416, G36 and AK in stalker 2 but they are way too underpowered. They're also unrealistically inferior to SMGs for some reason.

[light hollow]

Not exactly. In the trilogy, what changes with every difficulty options are the resistances that you, the player, have against different stuff.
Bullets themselves arent affected in a good way, not at elast for you because nor NPC nor mutants would die any easier. In fact, only in SoC, you do less damage

As demonstrated here: #📸┃trilogy-screenshots message

[static star]

I swear enemies, both mutants and stalkers, die faster in the harder difficulties in the older games. Felt like bullets were more lethal both ways.

Where did you get your stats in the spreadsheet?

[zenith creek]

They might want to hold off on coding DLCs until they settle on an engine for the game...

[light hollow]

Uuuuuuuuuh, yes
I'm guessing from people who know about the code, or even looked at the values of the .ltx files

In fact, let me check smth

[junior turret]

Be aware sons, this "molt" is not who you think

[static star]

Ah, so you arent sure where those numbers actually come from

Either way, in older games it felt like you and the enemies died quicker on harder difficulties.

In S2 it feels like enemies got stronger and you weaker on harder difficulties

[flint cliff]

Will it be possible to use the new difficulty level during the current campaign I'm playing?

[light hollow]

Yeah Im not sure, but I know from really experienced people that the image is right.
Or, at least, that higher difficulties dont make you stronger, it just makes you weaker

Idk why a lot of people felt like that, maybe popular myth being spread and everyone having a placebo moment. But its a myth

[light hollow]

Says that it requires new game "this difficulty can only be selected at the beginning of the game"

[static star]

Yeah, you die faster, but so do the enemies

The new game isnt like that is all I was saying. It felt easier to play on master in the OG trilogy than in S2

[light hollow]

No, enemies dont die faster. Then again, its a myth

[flint cliff]

Damn!

[static star]

Don't mutants take more shots on the easier difficulty?

Same with headshots and everything

[light hollow]

Nope

Actually, you know what?
@fathom cedar sorry for pinging, but could you confirm that the difficulty myth (that master makes everyone die easier, including you) is false or not

Wow you are fast lol

[fathom cedar]

You were lucky I was browsing the server lol

Yeah higher difficulties = harder

[light hollow]

Shrimple as 🦐

[fathom cedar]

The bullet sponge thing is a myth

[light hollow]

Thank you

I just want to believe that this myth was created in an eastern 4chan post just to mislead westerns

[static star]

It may be the hit probability values. Don't enemies have that as well, where your bullets may veer off more etc

[light hollow]

No changes on hit probability whatsoever

According to the graph at least, NPC have 20% in SoC, 80% in CS and CoP

And the player has 100% hit probability

[static star]

Hmmmm

I remember playing the game way back in the day and the harder difficulties did feel better.

Idk its been a while since I played vanilla SoC and whatnot

[light hollow]

Placebo ig hehe

Or just you getting better

So uh, good job for gitting gud!

[static star]

Thank ye thank ye

[tiny token]

It felt easier to play on master in the OG trilogy than in S2
Implies the existence of master difficulty in s2

Also yes, it literally is a myth that got hallucinated into existence by the community in the OGs

Also, the experience of those who only ever played the OGs on master can't be quoted because they don't even know how lower difficulties feel like

[rapid warren]

Another psy op by c con

[tiny token]

Add to that the horrible inaccuracy of early game guns in the OGs, you have a recipe for inconsistent observations and samples from people

Did they really go down faster on master or did your bullets actually hit the target that time?

[light hollow]

That is another good point

The more you play/get better guns, the easier it is to kill

[static star]

Hardest difficulty in OG games vs Hardest difficulty in S2

Boom, fixed

S2's Hardest difficulty feels worse to play than the trilogy

[rapid warren]

Honestly gun accurancy is one of the worst things about originals

[tiny token]

agree

[tiny token]

worse in what way

[static star]

Enemies feel more spongy and it has a feeling of more "bs" difficulty than the ogs.

I am taking the nade spam from CS into account with this statement

I also played S2 at launch and havent touched it since the patches and whatnot

[rapid warren]

ah yes i love getting 40 grenades thrown at me

[light hollow]

Limansk's monolith building:

[rustic perch]

Anyone ever end up getting the Physical collector editions of the game from Final Boss?

[static star]

CS had some bs for sure

S2's hardest diffulty feels more bs in general

[rapid warren]

My glorious Clear sky💙 🩵

[zinc apex]

Peak sky mentioned 🔥

[light hollow]

Better ask in #☢┃stalker-general btw

[rustic perch]

Will do, thanks

[rapid warren]

my lovely swamp bois

[tiny token]

Since you played s2 at launch your statement makes sense when it comes to mutants. One point of frustration for people in s2 is the fact that guns are obviously tiered and their power level gets dictated mostly by the armor penetration value. This may feel bullshit, but it is important to note that the OGs had gun power level dictated by armor pen (iirc) and accuracy. You can't comfortably play the end of SoC with a basic ak because it's too inaccurate, thus requiring you to shoot way more to down one guy. This is a rough equivalent of what's happening in S2

[rapid warren]

I still cope we will see them one day

[nimble cipher]

_arsenii has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[tiny token]

lol i don't know what word it was

[zinc apex]

get wolf'd

[rapid warren]

[tiny token]

Human enemies aren't that annoying in S2. I played the game with choppy 20-30fps with mostly snipers and shotties and they ain't that bad in terms of the BS factor.

The only BS human moment in the game is probably the granite squad oneshotting you, but that's a bug

They telegraph their actions with voicelines and all that

[rapid warren]

They did fix it though

I didint experience one shorts form them on 1.5

[tiny token]

Actually the one BS aspect is probably the fact that enemies see through foliage

[rapid warren]

But yeah ut was increadibly bs on realase

[rapid warren]

Trueee

[static star]

Fair fair. So yeah S2 was more BS across the board at launch

Has the patches made it more fair in general for S2?

[rapid warren]

Yeah

[tiny token]

Yea I would say so

mutants have been considerably nerfed in terms of health and they got new attacks

[light hollow]

Thats generally what patches do hehe

[rapid warren]

They did some rebalances with accurancy and player spotting deifnetly

[tiny token]

pseudodogs now don't spawn 20 clones

[rapid warren]

Foliage is still an issue tho

[tiny token]

I sure hope they fix that at some point. Would feel like shіt if they never do lol

[rapid warren]

Yeah me too, we got a lot of done in terms of how player spotting since release so I think itll happen

[urban basin]

I still can't see at night with my flashlight but at least there is nvg

[spark crescent]

Quick monthly question: is 1.7 going to definitively fix A-Life?

[rapid warren]

no, we can expect major a life fixes along \engine upgrade

But there are [redacted] it MAYimprove offline a life

[drifting niche]

Alife isn't broken

[rustic perch]

Trying to farm up the last few missing artifacts, trying to save scum but I keep getting the same on 160+ meters out, am I doing something wrong?

[sly matrix]

Maybe you've been in range before you started trying?

[worthy zodiac]

Currently we have no clue if they'll ever "fix" it. Definitely not gonna happen in 1.7

[urban basin]

They can't fix perfection !!! (?)

[terse jay]

Sort of. Bloodsuckers can be killed quite easily now with couple TOZ-34 shots. I've been playing on and off since December last year, and I remember it used to be a slog, like 10 minute of dancing around to kill it. Also there was bloodsucker spam. I have recently replayed Lesser Zone part and some locations now spawn blind dogs, fleshes or rats. And no random bloodsucker in the open trying to ruin your day.

AI used to lob grenades if you were hiding behind cover for more than 1 second. They use grenades pretty sparingly now but you still need to listen for their callouts or have medkit ready.

But enemy spam especially on Veteran is BS. Yanov has a spot that will consistently spawn 3 bloodsuckers. Also there are fixed campfires that will spawn 4-6 Ward/Spark/Mercs/IPSF who will have no trouble shooting you through foliage. Also lets not forget random braindead insta-death locations. There are spots that will fry you with 10 billion Sieverts like in Prypiat. Or random sniper near Duga or Cordon.

Also I think (or believe if you will) that The Zone is giving me a middle finger by starting emissions everytime I am creeping around to base with 100 kg worth of loot.

[wraith socket]

If you pay attention, Emissions happen about every 2 days or 48 hours, give or take 8 hours either way.

[terse jay]

Just two examples of random bs that I had recently:

1. I had to fight group of mercs at the entrance of Duga. Then I moved to army depot which was a burer's lair. He instagib me with 4 AKs, shotguns and I think a sniper rifle. I have reloaded and killed him with one shot using my own sniper rifle. The moment a bullet went through his skull was when The Zone rewarded me with a group of mercs that spawned behind me in the building. Barely survived. Was overburdened with loot so I decided to leave Duga. That group of mercs at the entrance? Already respawned and had to kill them again. At this point in the storyline they use SVU-MK3s, Kharods and other high-end guns.
2. I have missed a stash at one bunker so decided to revisit it. All mutants that I have killed? Respawned. A bloodsucker was bugged at the entrance and was standing still so I killed it. But there were also poltergeists further inside constantly throwing stuff at me. I killed one but couldn't find the rest for solid 20 minutes while constantly avoiding flying buckets or propane tanks. Turns out there was 3 of them above me outside the bunker. It was completely nuts. I had to chase them around the hill. The stash was some random trash.

[static star]

Does it still have the bloodsucker in the tutorial or did they save the first encounter for a better side quest / part?

[terse jay]

No, still bloodsucker.

I agree, it should be something else like the psy-elk or maybe one snork

[wraith socket]

Mutants often return to areas that you have met them before. Why would they not?
Any place that Stalkers might go, is just a free and easy meal for them. They get hungry too.

[terse jay]

Sure, but it was the same group compsition from the side-quest. If it was random like a suprise chimera then sure but spawns are incredibly annoying right now

it was that bunker from Dvupalov quest with the emitter/radio

[terse jay]

I have only recently learnt they can pounce

[celest oracle]

guys

what do you think about the master difficulty? Will it be less loot, less money type of stuff and more hardcore dmg style, where you deal and also take more damage?

Or just enemy's deal more damage type of difficulty?

[deft glade]

I believe damage dealt and received is going to be 1 to 1. So, fair.

Regarding loot and economics, I think you will receive less money from traders when selling artifacts and whatnot, less ammo in caches and from corpses, etc.

In #📜┃gsc-answers it's mentioned

[lost tartan]

Master difficulty just makes skif 90lbs overweight and no matter how much you sprint or walk he gets winded after half a second of sprinting

[sly matrix]

I love the concerned burer in the backgrouns

[wise geyser]

Master DIFFFFFF

So peak 👌

Hopefully though for the love of god the knife stutter bug is fixed 😭😂

[nimble cipher]

salezer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wise geyser]

Lmao one of those discord scams

[spiral stump]

fr

[wise geyser]

Get Wolf’d

[nimble cipher]

salezer has been banned

Reason: scam

[keen bone]

Wrote a message earlier idk if it sent - got a new laptop with a GeForce 5050, am I SOL if I wanna play S2 due to the limited 8GB VRAM? it's ok if so just would be fun to play it if possible as I save up for a main PC

[wraith socket]

You might be able to play it on low or medium settings.

[coarse sparrow]

that's dumb if true

Mol1t's replies about the Master difficulty are so cliche ngl

[tiny token]

it should be about 100 meters so maybe you're just unlucky

[rustic perch]

Is Fireball a real artifact, I've save scummed this thermal anomaly for an hour and haven't seen it once

[unreal raptor]

All for master mode as long as it does not follow Bethesda style difficulty rules.

You do less dmg. They do more nonsense.

[stone trench]

Well with weapons becoming less durable i would pray that its a 1-1. Otherwise its just a torture sim

[lost tartan]

Yes i found on by chance the other day

[spark crescent]

Thank you!
See you all in a month or so....

And now....back to GAMMA!!!

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[rapid warren]

somebody give this man a ,,true"

[coarse sparrow]

I think its exactly that tbf

[rancid zephyr]

Hi everyone, is the new master difficulty level permanent or will it be removed soon?

So, is it worth starting a new game?

[zinc apex]

The update is not out yet

[summer stream]

Why would you think they would remove it?

[rancid zephyr]

When is the update supposed to come out?

[zinc apex]

We don't know unfortunately

[summer stream]

It’s being tested currently

[rancid zephyr]

hmm okay

[summer stream]

Testing usually only lasts a few weeks. testing began about a week ago. This is all assuming everything works accordingly

[latent kite]

Soon TM

[fickle apex]

numpad fixed?

[rapid warren]

Numpad?

[hazy helm]

no

I know you, weird controls guy

[fickle apex]

god forgive im left handed

no seriously how hard is it to fix that, you can even change the cam controls it just doesnt work in ADS

[hazy helm]

I got a more permanent solution
https://www.wikihow.com/Become-Ambidextrous

[fickle apex]

i am right handed normally, i play left handed

[zinc apex]

👁️👄👁️

[fickle apex]

has reasons, my dad was left handed back then so i adopted to his control schemes in unreal tournament, cod2/4 and so on

anyway, fixing 4 keybinds after a year of release and multiple times of adressing said issue should be possible

just my humble opinion. I finished the game with normal wasd controls but their are people who are actually only left handed and cant enjoy the game because of such a minor issue, that was promised to be fixed

[storm kernel]

named gamma steve
0/10 ragebait, change the name next time for better results

[rancid zephyr]

Does anyone know when the new update will be released, based on experience? Next week, or will it take longer? What do you think?

[unreal raptor]

always longer — and expect bugs!

[zinc apex]

My guess: no later than 20th november

[celest blaze]

Engine update when ?

[rancid zephyr]

I wanted to start a new round with Ward anyway. So it would make more sense to wait until the new update comes out with the new difficulty level, rather than starting one now and then having to restart halfway through. Of course, I'd prefer to start from the beginning on the hardest difficulty.

thatßs why i. asking ^^

[worthy zodiac]

February 4th

[opaque badger]

When is ready

[spark crescent]

It was actually just me sharing a rare moment of enthusiasm.
It's a coincidence that it's about GAMMA; little more than a year ago it would've been Minecraft or ZBrush.....

@storm kernel Actually, now that I think about it, I started playing GAMMA just because of how bad STALKER 2 was.....ironic, is it not? 😅 🥲

[storm kernel]

gammid in the big 25 💔

[summer stream]

We already explained this to you last night when you asked the same question question

[rancid zephyr]

I just wanted to double-check. 😅

[worthy zodiac]

The update is NOWWWW

[dire dagger]

ever heard of updatemuh

[summer stream]

Again, most likely in a couple weeks. It’s all dependent on how testing goes. Could be sooner, could be longer

[rancid zephyr]

No problem, I'll wait and start a new game after the update, thanks

[worthy zodiac]

Updeez

[dire dagger]

update muh game

[coarse sparrow]

same day as ps5

or when stalker leaves game pass

[spiral sun]

Bought ultimate edition for Ps5. Never played a stalker game. Going in blind. I hear big things about this game so I am hoping, coming in now, most of the bugs are squashed and I can have a solid experience.

[wraith socket]

Expect bugs exclusive to the PS5 platform since it's new.

[spiral sun]

Yeah 100%. Happens with all new games.

[shadow rune]

What does ultimate edition get you?

[spiral sun]

Base Game

Bonus Side Quest

Digital Artbook

Official Soundtrack

1 Special Suit & 4 Unique Weapons

3 Special Suits & 7 Unique Weapons (transferable to multiplayer)

Season Pass (2 story expansions and any future DLC)

[glossy mesa]

Has there been any reason given for the removal of Stalker 2 from GamePass? The reason I ask is becuase it was on the service ALOT less than most games.

[drifting niche]

Xbox games are dying

[wraith socket]

It was on Game Pass for a year. That's long enough to finish the game multiple times.

[onyx dock]

I mean technically yeah, but a lot of people have been waiting for the game to get into a better state before getting into it

[latent kite]

It wasnt less time than “most games” though

Third party games don’t typically stay on GP for years on end

[wraith socket]

You snooze you lose.

[unreal raptor]

After seeing arc raiders and what they have done with unreal. I’m optimistic about this engine upgrade. Do we know what version arc runs on?

[light hollow]

Consider it as an opportunity to not play the game at all until it is in a great state and at 50% discount

I wouldnt say that you've lost if you snooze. One day, you will be able to play for cheaper than most and with less bugs

[light hollow]

Apparently, 5.3

[unreal raptor]

What is stalker 2 currently in? 5.1?

[light hollow]

Yeah

[unreal raptor]

Pray for performance. Arc raiders runs on steam deck. First ue5 title I’ve seen that’s not a total mess.

[light hollow]

Theres silent hill F too

Not perfect but its there

[unreal raptor]

Oh is that a good one?

[light hollow]

With optimized settings, runs at 60+ on a 3060, even with lumen enabled, no dlss

[rapid warren]

Sounds good

[rapid warren]

Me too, hoping they'll take their time with engine upgrade to rewrite lots of custom Code, etc.

[rapid warren]

I player cronos and it ran very well athough I heard otherwise form some people

[light hollow]

Also that. Its not entirely the engine's fault, although it has some stupid stuff like forced lumen, so if they keep trying to optimize it, they will reach a more decent spot than rn

[latent kite]

Arc does run very well but they need to sort the servers out

Slam test pop vs actual release pop caught them off guard it seems

Very good game just a few unexpected hurdles to overcome which should hopefully be settled within this first week

Luckily Alan wake 2 is tiding me over til

[coarse sparrow]

30% profit margin for xbox

[analog helm]

it's not about version - Arc doesn't use neither Lumen nor Nanite. They have their own heavily modified version of the engine with incorporated Nvidia RTXGI.

[unreal raptor]

nanite and lumen are a scourge on perfomance and muddy visuals

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[dire dagger]

You saying something positive about stalker 2

Sir are you well?

[zinc apex]

How are you doing Stalkers?

[unreal raptor]

Funnly enough — i've got the flu.

[dire dagger]

Oh explains it

Thought something terrible must have happened

[worthy zodiac]

They don't use lumen/nanite. Doubt S2 devs will stop using these techbologies

[dire dagger]

Over……

They should just add support for dedicated power vr ray tracing cards

[celest goblet]

TBD if it fixes some of the visual effects e.g. lumen being very weird indoors in low light but I expect it will free up some performance at least

[unreal raptor]

yeah same — hoping for some lumen improvements. It's really muddy at the mo.

[astral kiln]

Alan wake mentioned

https://tenor.com/view/alan-wake-alan-wake-2-herald-of-darkness-musical-old-gods-of-asgard-gif-15683089533548962375

Damn no gifs is crazy

[latent kite]

https://tenor.com/view/alan-wake-dance-alan-wake-2-dancing-herald-of-darkness-gif-13281546075398170230

[rapid warren]

what is alan wake even about

[latent kite]

One of the rare occurrences of a sequel outdoing the first

[drifting niche]

It's time to announce that the engine update will be next year

[latent kite]

That’s a complicated question lmao

[rapid warren]

i get so confused each time i see this gif

[latent kite]

It’s a very twisty turny psychological horror with a great narrative

[hazy helm]

its a movie actually

[latent kite]

The first stuck with me way back when on the 360 but the 2nd was insanely good

[rapid warren]

I feel like its anthing BUT a video game

[latent kite]

It plays like RE4 kinda

In the sense of a survival horror

It’s one of those that you either love or hate

[hazy helm]

the first was a game the next they made was a movie

[latent kite]

Pretty much

[hazy helm]

if you dont count american nightmare

[latent kite]

The story is good stuff though if you’re into heavy stories

Personally I wasn’t a massive fan of control but quantum break was also good

Control felt too repetitive

Good ideas but just doesn’t play well

[rustic perch]

Anyone know how long it would take from Subtle Matter to beat the game?

[latent kite]

Not long

Less than 10h if just doing the main quests

[rustic perch]

Ouch, just need one more ending and have a save before the decision there. Was just going to sprint through to the end.

[summer stream]

Half life 2, halo 2, silent hill 2, red dead 2, uncharted 2, mass effect 2, left 4 dead 2, portal 2, helldivers 2

I feel like game sequels are usually better, unlike movies

[astral kiln]

Literally one of my favorite games of all time

I'm glad I found another one of us lmao

[latent kite]

I don’t mind saga but Alan’s segments were defo superior

It’s his narrating that sells his parts for me

[drifting niche]

It's time to tell you what to expect this year from the roadmap, 2 weeks left until the release on PS5

[wraith socket]

Just a reminder, Stalker 2 is leaving Game Pass in 9 Days.
Right now, you can get it for $29 on Amazon at 50% off.

[tacit oracle]

usually the sequel will refine the original at the very least, usually with a higher budget

[proud herald]

Is A-life fixed?

[tacit oracle]

define "fixed"

entities now move around while offline up to 2km away and will fight between each other, idk if that counts as "fixed" for you.

I'm assuming not since this has been the case since 1.2, I don't think there's been any significant changes to a-life since 1.5

[zinc apex]

Have a wonderful day Stalkers

[sly matrix]

Hello, Stalkers!™

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[nimble cipher]

tearsdontfall has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sharp minnow]

There is no A-life, it's just that AI is already fed up with this A-life! How long can you put up with this?

[zinc apex]

Update out on Nintendo Wii 🔥

[rapid warren]

[rapid warren]

Stalker 0.1

[marsh chasm]

Dysl€xic people with $2.9 on their way to buy the game

||(It's me)||

[unkempt sphinx]

I dont think people who earn only 2,90 are generally of the buying kind

[celest blaze]

id play this unironically lol

[zinc apex]

Gsc should reboot stalker online mobile

[celest blaze]

[finite dragon]

Stalker on psp ?

[terse jay]

your average brazilian battlestation more likely

I am not hating, they have it rough there in south america

[bold raft]

Stalker devs just copy strike Misery... What a douchbags..

[drifting niche]

Well, the application was approved, so it's fair

[scenic sundial]

Incomprehensible move, Misery is inspired by Stalker, sure, but it's not copying Stalker at all, especially from a legal sense, they didn't lift anything

[drifting niche]

Do you think Steam employees don't know their job?

[hazy helm]

its completely unlike stlaker so, if it was GSC, that would be dumb

general rule, if smth is descibed "stalker-like" its actually based on Roadside Picnic

[drifting niche]

I wish moderators wouldn't break their own rules

[toxic trail]

real

[coarse sparrow]

and Misery use content of the original game, shameful

[inland hinge]

Welp I guess Into The Radius VR is next at this point. This is so dumb...

[hazy helm]

the roadside picnic game? hasnt it been out for years? I doubt it

[inland hinge]

Roadside picnic? A little confused by the meaning. But I just cant comprehend why they targeted Misery

But yee that game been out for a ehile itr

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-thumbnail-does-he-know-he-doesnt-know-gif-27552850

[latent kite]

https://tenor.com/view/сталкер-stalker-андрей-тарковский-andrei-tarkovsky-анатолий-солоницын-gif-8559769058136296624

[inland hinge]

Would you like to educate me?

[hazy helm]

do you read?

[inland hinge]

I was referring to Into The Radius

[latent kite]

Roadside picnic is what stalker and a few other games take inspiration from

[hazy helm]

do you tho?

[inland hinge]

Never played roadside picnic

[latent kite]

It’s also a great book

Well worth the read

[hazy helm]

how would you feel if you didnt have breakfast this morning?

[inland hinge]

Yall are some weird mods lol. Anyways my break is over hesding to work

[tiny token]

"But I had breakfast this morning!"

[finite dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/сталкер-stalker-андрей-тарковский-andrei-tarkovsky-пикник-на-обочине-gif-12795547806693565454

[inland hinge]

Gotcha

Just looked it up but how does that have anything to do with misery?

[latent kite]

Well the setting for stalker and misery as well as a few other bits of media draws inspiration from it

[inland hinge]

Where im a little confused is if misery used game assers or not. The dmcs seemed a bit much

[tiny token]

The only proof we have is the literal children posting merely a snippet of the email detailing why their shіt got taken down

And since the devs are actual kids I wouldn't be surprised if they straight up ripped meshes or code from either OG stalker or some of the mods without understanding the copyright laws

[rapid warren]

Hold up didint misery copy certain locations 1:1 from stalker?

[tiny token]

I haven't played it nor do I care about it but I heard they straight up copy shіt like the SIRCAA and so on

If GSC were being unreasonable and just struck it for "desolate eastern european atmosphere" they would have already taken down Chernobylite and Stalcraft and so on

[rapid warren]

Like in the very first trailer you can see poppy field exactly like im stalker 2

[bold raft]

Idk if this matters or not, but the person who filed the DMCA, Olga Yalovlenko, is one of GSC's practically in-house lawyers, who probably filed this at the behest of someone actually pretty high up in GSC. But let 's see how it plays out. It happened just when Misery devs won that award

[tiny token]

The fact that this is the only game they struck is telling

Also their devs and community managers support the war so they can get fuсked lol

[inland hinge]

I own the game. If you want me to I can check for the locations but im also still new at the game so might take me a sec to get there

I really hope that this dmca is legitamate because misery looks promising

[tacit oracle]

I'm going to wait for an actual statement, but if things are as they look I'll be very disappointed in gsc.
Acting like you own the copyright on people in gas masks playing guitar is some straight up supervillain level shit.

[scenic sundial]

Honestly I agree that the Misery devs have some garbo takes, and their reaction to this is extremely unprofessional, but still that DMCA takedown is unjustified, and Misery is a very solid game.
Bad devs, good game, frivolous "lawsuit"-adjacent move. Sadly not the first time, won't be the last.

[nocturne dagger]

that be interesting considering everything is procedural generation

[left terrace]

what did the inventory look like before that?

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

found a screenshot

new layout is much better

[nimble cipher]

Hey there! 👋
It seems there is no characters on this server yet 😓
Reach out to the owner or the bot masters of this server to invite them here.

[oak wyvern]

Why did gsc remove misery?

I really hope the company hasn't gotten greedy

As long as yall dont touch other projects cus yall could kill a genre doing that........

And istg if into the radius gets hit im never touching stalker again

[finite dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/shivering-dog-shiver-me-timbers-shiver-me-timbers-dog-gif-23060744

[celest blaze]

wonder if they will try something with active matter from gajin

[nimble cipher]

chingbillin420 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[hollow parcel]

because this game just stole the sounds from Stalker, and it's just a russian dogshit copy

[celest goblet]

Considering the number of games on steam that very obviously borrow liberally from stalker I assume it is for some specific reason

[analog helm]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1orazjh/guys_gsc_is_literally_power_tripping_with_dmca/

[pastel ledge]

There is obviously a lot more to this then we know right now, and just like котсеній said, there is PLENTY of stalker like games out there and none of them have had any issues with GSC or anyone really as far as I am aware. So it’s fair to assume there is a good reason this happened. As for the devs on Misery, they are pretty racist, their lead developers fully support the Russian invasion and made antisemitic remarks, and the dev himself even said that the only reason he added English was because that’s where all the money was. And if I’m not mistaken he did say English was a stupid language and was against putting it in the game (at least that is what I herd)

[tacit oracle]

everything that's transpired today leads me to believe there's more to things that what's been let out by the misery devs

the dmca claims they show as proof are... childish to say the least, the dev out of nowhere nukes like half the channels in their discord server and puts out an apology about being racist (which has nothing to do with the dmca claim as far as I can tell), I dunno, it's all very sus

I'm still hoping it just comes down to some false flag by someone impersonating GSC because otherwise this DMCA is some captain planet supervillain move

and it would make little sense tbh

[hollow stag]

They stole from stalker plain and simple

[pastel ledge]

If he nuked half the discord he might have been trying to hide something, but that’s speculation, I honestly kind of liked misery and assumed they just kind of did their own thing since these stalker like games usually bring together people without any drama, but after everything right now I already requested a refund, like I live in ukraine and as soon as you see people like that dev who make remarks like that about ukraine and how they treat a HUGE chunk of their player base, going as far as calling Americans “not humans” certainly doesn’t and shouldn’t win any hearts

[tacit oracle]

gsc doesn't own any of the stuff that's been provided as "proof" and I would really really hope gsc's lawyers know better than to do a dmca because they think they own the copyright on people in gas masks playing guitar

part of the (still unproven) massive negative reaction to this is precisely because how ridiculous that claim is, and I do hope it's simply not true.

[pastel ledge]

I don’t think they are specifically going after them based off the picture with the guitar and gas mask lol that would be pretty crazy otherwise they would have to strike countless of games

[tacit oracle]

right, that's what strikes me as profoundly odd

like nobody in their right mind would A) claim ownership of the two examples provided by the misery devs (those being a picture of buildings and a screenshot of gas masked guys playing guitar) and B) make what would possibly be the biggest dick move since sega claimed they owned the crazy taxi arrow

[pastel ledge]

That’s why I’m thinking with the dev nuking the whole discord he may have admîted to sometbing that gsc didn’t take lightly, could be assets, a some design things that we aren’t aware of, who knows

[tacit oracle]

yeah, there's either gotta be something else to the claim, or this is some huge false flag op, or something

I mean there's the possibility that things are like they have been presented, in which case that's the last cent gsc sees from me

like, I'm all for gsc and ukraine, and the misery dude doesn't look like a very nice guy, but I'll still hold up gsc to basic ethical standards like any other studio.

[pastel ledge]

Yeah you aren’t wrong they are a big company and it would seem like a big stretch with this whole situation just from one little developer, and if it does get resolved and comes back then I wish them luck and hope everyone enjoys it. Other than that I’ll take my money back and not touch that game lol

[tacit oracle]

I just really really really hope it's just been someone trying to tarnish gsc's image and out to stir the pot in an attempt to damage them

like it's happened in the past with the cyber attacks gsc have claimed to have received

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[drifting niche]

Is this about overlay effects? #📜┃gsc-answers message

[tacit oracle]

part of the "immersive hud additions" if I'm not mistaken

[pastel ledge]

Yeah for sure and I mean GSC is a solid company imo they never had any drama before, the only time they have had any flak was when they updated their old games to implement more Ukrainian atmospheric changes and got rid of some communism symbols (which may have been pressured since Ukrainian law forbids the display of soviet symbols, which would be a bad look for the company since they are Ukrainian) which is all fair since it is their game. Which is probably why they claimed to have those cyber attacks in the first place

[tacit oracle]

ehhh there was the nft thing

and other, less justifiable "improvements" to the EE besides the soviet stuff (which I find to a point understandable)

[pastel ledge]

EFT thing?

[tacit oracle]

yeah they wanted to implement nfts into stalker 2 iirc

https://www.ign.com/articles/stalker-2-nfts-response

[pastel ledge]

lol yeah no thanks I don’t think anyone in their right minds would want to do that, I’m glad they didn’t

[tacit oracle]

it does look like it was a legitimate attempt at trying to simply make money out of something that must have been brought up by players

like I remember when NFTs started being all the rage and people were talking about metaverses and how you could take a gun from counter strike and use it in overwatch

[pastel ledge]

I’m just glad they didn’t add any battle royale mode haha

[tacit oracle]

it never made sense to me, and it's something you can do without nfts if you wanted to, but ynow, there was that brief psychosis for about half a year or so

[pastel ledge]

Yeah and I mean to be fair back then we didn’t know it was just a big money laundering scheme but at the same time I kind of see why they would go after it as a form of making money since stalker was still in the development stage but it’s also good that people actually called them out on it since I think GSC has the player base to thank for pointing it in the right direction and making it the solid game we have now, and them actually taking the feedback and doing it. I be fair I don’t think any gaming company has been clean from disapproval like that

[tiny token]

dumb kids post merely a snippet of the copyright claim, possibly because they know full well the other stuff sounds way more reasonable and inflammatory than "commieblock"
"wow gsc how could you do this???"

Ever wonder why they never struck chernobylite or stalcraft or whatever else?

[rapid warren]

Again they copied certain stalker locations 1:1

And that's from trailers and screenshot alone without even playing the game

Anyway servers them right I was surprised how much they nubbed from stalker before the game even released

[pastel ledge]

Yeah now unfortunately stalker is getting review bombed all because of that, like it’s not even removed it’s just delisted for now lol

Russians are all loosing their mind because the only stalker clone game that is Russian is getting DMCA’d so they are doing their patriotic duty and complaining on their reviews against “evil Ukrainian gsc games”

And GSC games probably could have let it go, but when you got devs basically cloning a game and then recycling it while adding their own touches while also being antisemetic and chanting pro war garbage on their server against Ukrainians (GSC literally being almost all Ukrainian) then you can see why it was honestly a good idea to put that DMCA in the first place lol

[rapid warren]

Yup basically sums up their attitude pretty well

[worthy zodiac]

I'd defend them if the author wasn't a ztard. Now I kinda hope it was real GSC that did the copyrightstrike cause fuсk them, to be honest

[rapid warren]

Besides review bombing isn't new there were people on telegram paying money for negative steam opinions on release

[analog helm]

There are two basic rules one needs to follow to not get DMCA'd:

1. Do not plagiarize other people`s work.
2. If you do - at least do not disrespect them in public.
   Well, misery devs faild both...

[latent kite]

Moral of the story is use your own brain and make your own mind up, reviews are subjective

[stoic ermine]

Meanwhile Stalcraft exists and no one bats an eye...

[analog helm]

Stalkraft devs have not violated the rule №2

[worthy lagoon]

Depending on the license it's up to the one that owns the IP to choose who to DMCA, if they don't then they are fine with it or you are officially authorised

It's not an automatic universal thing, you can be authorised or they simply don't want to DMCA you

Isn't it obvious?

[lost tartan]

I know this is a bit of a loaded question but how strict is GSC about copyright stuff? I know of a couple Reforger mods that use stuff thats 1:1 with Stalker (obviously a bit different because 1. mod devs aren't making money and 2. the assets are all handmade and not ripped/bought), there's also games like Chernobylite that others have mentioned and im sure other games with similarities as well. Is this strictly a case of "these specific devs ripped as much as they could and flaunted it" or does GSC copystrike things like this in order to protect IP regularly given the right circumstances

[hazy helm]

GSC is pretty liberal with their policy, and have protected and lifted false dmcas of stuff that was strucken down without their consent

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, that's true. Even some ztarded youtubers had their dmca strikes lifted and GSC wasn't pursuing them. I still think there's a possibility Misery wasn't copyrightstriked by GSC themselves

But as I said before - I kinda wish it was GSC for real, lol

[celest goblet]

It would not be the first time there were fraudulent strikes supposedly by GSC

[civic monolith]

BI and Steam will go terminator mode over any ripped content appearing on the workshop.
Even if you don’t make any money from it.

Assets are often reported by individuals or modders and then taken down, doesn’t even need to be a DMCA although that happens too.
Even copying from other mods can lead to takedowns on the workshop.

I used to be very involved in the Arma community

[celest goblet]

Seeing as stuff like Anomaly continues on with the official thumbs up from GSC I think it is safe to say that they're pretty open compared to many other companies

[lost tartan]

Based on what I've seen so far thats what i figured. It doesn't seem like a nintendo situation where they aggressively go after anyone making even tangentially related content. I don't know anything about Misery itself beyond what little ive read here and a handful of shortform videos advertising it as "co-op stalker"

[tacit oracle]

I'm going to reserve judgement until we have an official statement from gsc

This being said, if they did file a dmca just to be vindictive against a game that, realistically, didn't really infringe on their copyright, I'm honestly going to be very disappointed.

If it can be demonstrated that misery stole a significant amount of assets sure, but I'm not going to justify using dmcas with a thinly veiled excuse to screw over a small project, I don't really care for much of a dick the misery guy is.

I'm particularly interested in whether the snippets the misery guy showed were real, and why the hell he followed that up with the server nuke and that statement about how he was super racist but that was 2024 you guys

[tiny token]

he nuked it to hide the fact that they're all pro-putin coсksuckers

that apology of his was for some reason targeted at russians and not ukrainians

[tiny token]

the demonstration of stealing assets is in that email which the kid purposefully doesn't want to show in its entirety

if you want the info you should go pester him

i don't want gsc giving that rat any attention with an official statement

[tacit oracle]

I would very much like them confirming that this entire thing was a false flag from someone trying to make gsc look bad. To me this would be the best possible outcome

Barring that, at least a justification as to why they decided to kick this hornet's nest would be appreciated.

[tiny token]

vatnik kids steal your assets and setpieces while laughing at your entire nation
you rightfully DMCA it
noooo don't kick the heckin hornets nest!!!

[tacit oracle]

From where I'm standing right now it doesn't look that rightful to me, hence why I'll appreciate a statement.

[tiny token]

they didn't heckin steal it bro mkay?

go pester the kid for the full email

[light hollow]

||SILKSONG REFERENCE?!?!?!||

[summer stream]

Did you even watch the trailer?

[celest goblet]

They jacked that famous gate from the SoC key art that they put into S2 as an easter egg basically 1:1

Even the bird nest on top of it lol

[tacit oracle]

No, like I said I'm not going to make my own reasons as to why GSC would have done it, I want to know if GSC did it, and if they did, why

[summer stream]

Watch the trailer, and that will tell you why…

https://youtu.be/QydY_gCYHOY

[tacit oracle]

no, what will tell me why is when gsc says why, and I'm sorry but you don't work for gsc

[summer stream]

Here is a clip of music that has been ripped directly from stalker

[summer stream]

So you’re willing to sit here and write novels about how upset you are but not willing to watch the trailer or see the countless posted images that show 1:1 rip offs of locations, assets, and music that has been taken?

[tacit oracle]

look, I don't want to justify gsc's actions, or read someone justify them on their behalf. At this point we don't even have confirmation that GSC did it in the first place.

I'm doing what good boys do and it is waiting patiently to hear things from the horse's mouth

if gsc did a spurious dmca motivated by political reasons or just to be a dick to someone, however objectionable they would be, I'm just going to take my money somewhere else, because that's what I would do if a company did it to gsc.

Same as if cdprojekt did a dmca takedown on stalker 2 because it includes the witcher seal as an easter egg (which I'm pretty sure it's a registered trademark). Because it wouldn't be about copyright but about being a giant dick about it.

I want to know if they did it in the first place, whether they tried to contact the misery dev about it, whether time was given to correct this, and what did they actually list as for the reason if a dmca was indeed filed.

[tiny token]

You're gonna write 5 pages about how you aren't gonna look for obvious ripoffs instead of spending 5 minutes looking at said obvious ripoffs lol

[stiff pasture]

Apparently Dave has decided to jump in on this

[celest goblet]

DMCA is not really intended to be a public process but it's certainly worth remembering that the only word on why it was issued is coming from the person who had their thing taken down, so their word is to be taken with a grain of salt. And, well, now that they brought attention to themselves and people have dug up dirt, they're trying to sweep all that under the rug.

Malicious? I don't know. Certainly not very smart

[tacit oracle]

which is extremely sus yeah

[worthy lagoon]

Why do you think a company would rightfully file a DMCA complaint lol?

The reason is pretty obvious

Simply put, stealing copyright protected material without authorisation and making money out of it is a very bad move, and don't expect companies to warn you or something because they can legally sue you and make you pay other than forcing you to remove the stolen content

IP owners can decide who to sue and can give authorisations depending on the license

Whether it was political or not, IP owners can decide if they want to pursue a DMCA complaint or not (depending on the license)

Their property, their choices

[dim topaz]

I'm sure this Lidl indie game by some random dude was a huge threat to GSC

[ionic mauve]

spoiler alert. Zone is actually controlled by The Big Zone or more well known as Deep Zone.

[tiny token]

nyooo! you're supposed to let vatniks steal your textures and set pieces and music or else you're not heckin wholesome!!

[coarse sparrow]

I mean if it was using copyrighted stuff, the law is the law

[celest goblet]

These rules don't apply equally to large companies often enough, but they also shouldn't be the only ones subject to them

[viral apex]

GSC be like: we invented fog around abandoned buildings!
They are coping our content!!!

And some random drop stuff out of nowhere by "casualty":
Oh hey, the misery dev is pro on THAT side.

[tiny token]

spoken like a true peasant who hasn't actually seen the whole story

[viral apex]

Yep, thats me

[tiny token]

like straight up copying textures, music, setpieces and so on

[viral apex]

Couldnt give less, just got me off guard all this drama

[viral apex]

Meh, just a patch update to reemplace The content and thats it

[tiny token]

which is literally what's gonna happen

[celest goblet]

Seems like the best resolution to the situation

[tiny token]

that little runt said that's what he was told to do and he's gonna do it

[celest goblet]

Bro can make his own ideas and assets

[viral apex]

Guys, why Stalker EE workshop
SUCKS?

[tiny token]

russian forced to come up with his own ideas instead of stealing shіt (equivalent to torture)

[viral apex]

There no actual modding
Like just basic of basic stuff

[celest goblet]

Because EE kinda sucks

[viral apex]

Ukranian devs: stalker, metro sagas
Russian devs: miside

[tiny token]

russian devs: smuta, pioner

[viral apex]

Yoooo

[tiny token]

not sure if links are allowed here

[viral apex]

Looks cool

[tiny token]

dm'd it to you

[viral apex]

Yeah but i was joking cuz miside sucks

Guys, bought stalker E.E over miside
No doubt on it

[tiny token]

don't you get the OGs when you buy ee

best thing to do with ee is to play OGs instead like god intended

[light hollow]

Yes

[celest blaze]

OGs are so much better lol

[light hollow]

Its apparently because he used stalker assets. Cant confirm nor deny this tho because the dev isnt fully posting the copystruck to show more information (sus), and gsc is not making a public announcement yet (sus)

[warm linden]

until a statement from GSC is released, we don't know if it was even them who sent it

not the first time a company has been impersonated by an unknown person

[pastel ledge]

honestly me personally idc what the outcome is, but the misery devs kind of deserve it the way they talk behind the backs of the people who fund their game. Hot take, thats just my opinion

[tacit oracle]

I do agree that it's nice to see people who act like a pos get their comeuppance, but abusing a legal procedure reserved for something entirely different is not the way to go about things imo

[pastel ledge]

he literally has ripped off some assets from stalker, and then does absolutely nothing when his whole dev team are pro russian war supporters, while also literally claiming that he added english just to milk his english player base. Disagree with me all you like but striking down a "1 man developer" goes far beyond that, too many people are painting him a victim and STALKER 2 got review bombed into the ground with his supporters who literally use ethnic slurs against ukrainians in their negative reviews when the dev team of gsc themsleves are ukrainian

[drifting niche]

Have you ever encountered mutants that eat NPCs?

[stiff pasture]

Yes

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[unreal raptor]

Let’s not get political please.

[wraith socket]

Do you consider the Monolith a political organization?

[unreal raptor]

Religion == Politics

Just jesting after all the heavy political talk above. 🫡

[wraith socket]

Politics and Religion inside the games are exempt from that.
It's politics and religion in the real world which are not.

[deft glade]

I can tell you one thing, as a person who lost a lot during the war of russia against Ukraine. When your nation is being bombarded every day, many people are killed every day Illegally because of war crimes and then someone with pro-russia position Illegally stills assets from your games, uses it in the pro-russian game, it’s the only right thing to do to take legal action, so your legacy isn’t remembered in a perverted and wrong way.

I find it heartbreaking that so many people listen to the so called “victim” and normalize it. It’s not about legally bullying someone, it’s about preserving human decency and legacy of what they developed over the years.

[burnt prairie]

Ay, you take that back you bandito. Monolith forever, bandits can stay in the garbage where they belong!

[summer cliff]

So I guess 1.7 will come along with the PS5 release. Judging by that we'll get engine update in.. February-March? When will the DLCs come then?... I love this game but I probably will get old before this game is finished

[muted valve]

I'd think they want to release the patch before it just to solve any issues that pop up

[summer cliff]

Yeah, that's my bet. Release the patch a couple of days before 20th and release a hotfix afterwards

[muted valve]

I think they'll want to avoid releasing both the ps5 release and the patch on a Thursday, that's a lot of work to be done if something goes wrong

[tiny token]

They've been teasing it with official announcements in the past week so i don't think it's too far off

And if we're thinking in terms of the PS5 release, then I think it'd be better to release the patch before the game drops on PS5 so there's hotfixes to fix stuff

[celest goblet]

Engine update was planned to be a separate thing than the major feature updates so it could come anytime. When It's Done basicallyt

Could come in December but IDK if they would want to deploy a big update just before holidays again...

[tiny token]

Yea i'm talking about 1.7

I don't expect the engine update to come this year honestly. HOWEVER

[coarse sparrow]

most sensible would be to have it coincide with PS release

but then I remember last year GSC pulled a lot in Dec

[tiny token]

I heard a story of a guy who met stalker devs in some promo or whatever and he was begging one of the devs to leak something. He obviously didn't but he said there's gonna be one extra thing this year that's gonna surprise us, or something in that spirit

[frozen yacht]

is the game still in early access?

[mystic drum]

The game is still being developed in real time after release.

Good luck to people who play Stalker 2 for the first time, sometime in 2027

[coarse sparrow]

pretty much

they got the main story blockers ironed out tho

[crude scroll]

how about they put that much effort into their own game aswell?

[orchid gale]

Petition for UA mods to stay in their own god damn channels

[latent kite]

For the most part EN chats are typically moderated by us but UA mods are free to chat amongst everyone else if they wish & if they see shit that needs moderating when we aren’t around that’s disrupting they can

That was a weird message my guy

[orchid gale]

Nah it’s straight issues when they step in over here

Muted a guy for a week for saying kot once

Banned based for asking a question about a pfp that promotes genocide

Ain’t weird it’s valid

[dire dagger]

im tired boss

[orchid gale]

It’s ok 😔 rest handsome

[celest portal]

dead chat

[storm kernel]

What if by the Shining Zone Scar was talking about Agartha...

[wraith socket]

It was Pizza.

[storm kernel]

pizza and White Monster...

[wraith socket]

Pizza and Crazy bread.

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[zinc apex]

Thanks

[lunar loom]

Wanted to congratulate GSC for promptly censoring indie studios out of political spite. Well done! DMCA >>>>> Promised ALife which never existed

[latent kite]

😴

[rocky shadow]

[worthy lagoon]

You too

[safe badge]

Thanks ❤️

[zinc apex]

Update this week? c: 👉 👈

[rapid warren]

It will be most likely at 20th the latest

So less than 2 weeks

[zinc apex]

"I want it all and I want it now!"
-- Queen

[thick wolf]

My gut says this week

[coarse sparrow]

with PS5 release

[lucid hare]

guys

do i have to start a new game for all the updates to be applied cuz i havent played in so long

and i know there is new guns and stuff

[zinc apex]

Nope, save files are compatible

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn99-captain-holt-yas-queen-snap-gif-14311294

[fickle apex]

hmmmmmm numpad?

[zinc apex]

use wasd bro jk

[lime yew]

Does stalker 2 have mod support on GOG?

[terse jay]

On Nexus Mods you will find section for Stalker 2, lot's of those have a short manual into which folder you need to drop the files, Steam Workshop has smaller selection from what I have noticed

[lime yew]

I have used nexus mods but only saw options for the xbox app and steam, never seen a gog option.

[terse jay]

I just download the files manually and drop them in respective directory, you just do not get the automation and tracking for updates

[lime yew]

Thanks bud

[keen bone]

How are people finding the world now? Going to jump back in for 1.7, played about 10hrs on Game Pass. Every time they did a major patch I played a few hours. Outside of the bugs the thing that really struck me is how empty the world feels - as I was doing quests it just felt like I was running from one point of interest in the PDA to another with random NPCs or monster groups spawned in occasionally, world felt very empty to me compared to playing Anomaly

has that feeling been fixed yet

also is stealth still broken as fuck/near impossible

[tacit oracle]

and anomaly doesn't feel like you're going from point to point coming across random groups of bandits and mutants?

imo the difference is that stalker 2 right now has a very strict npc spawning which makes it so certain POIs will always have the same npcs every time you pass through them, and will repopulate in the span of mere minutes. farm near zalissya or the bonfire in the way from zalissya to the ward checkpoint are very clear examples of that.

It's possible that this egregious spawning is due to the fact that alife in the originals and anomaly is map based, meaning that it has more breathing room when it comes to populating a map and giving them enough of a head start before you reach them, while in stalker 2 everything is based on a radius around skif and with absurdly short respawn timers that make it feel very artificial.

[keen bone]

no it feels like an actual living world, not a map with spawn points like S2 does rn

[terse bane]

ehem, how i explain u that A-Life has the spawn points too

are called smart_terrains

and apart of the A-Life Anomaly is empty, id say that certainly isn't a proper "bar".

[keen bone]

I was gonna say but second message wasn't sending on my PC - even tho functionally A-Life system has a similar limited spawn radius, somehow something about the way Anomaly does it makes the world feel organic and alive. S2 feels like I'm walking around a MMO map in beta

[terse bane]

in Anomaly u can configure spawn thingis and online range too

[keen bone]

I haven't at all. Default settings

And default spawn radius looks like js 75m, even smaller than S2. I think something about S2's map is larger in scope than the OG maps, especially in terms of how everything is spaced out, so I guess it's trickier to make the world feel alive

I'm gonna give it another go once S2 1.7 is live

I assume they're getting it ready for PS5 launch

[tacit oracle]

idk, imo it makes sense for stalker to feel "empty". The zone is a restricted area with a limited influx of people per day. Already in 2 it feels way too much for what you'd expect in such an area. But that's up to each player's interpretation I guess.

I haven't played vanilla anomaly, but I'll definitely say that gamma feels way way too much to the point of being annoying. Like, it's hard to believe the zone would function as depicted when the death toll appears to be around the 4 digits per day across the whole of it.

I think it would definitely help if they changed the background simulation and combat AI to introduce some sense of self preservation to both mutants and NPCs, it'd go a long way to make the world feel more credible and alive

[keen bone]

give vanilla anomaly a try, I haven't played gamma cos that seems like too much. Anomaly works great for me. Only mods I got were some graphic overhaul ones, body health system and campfire saving

when playing vanilla Anomaly there's still quite a few times I'll walk through an area and it's abandoned, but there's always a fair risk of coming across enemies. feels like a 50/50 chance of nothing vs something. good balance

whereas S2 feels like 80% nothing to the point it feels boring/empty

but like you said, kind of subjective

also in S2 I think you come across bloodsuckers way too frequently. In Anomaly, they're a rare event. You're mostly fighting rodents, dogs, zombies etc. Only v occasionally do you find a Bloodsucker, but in S2 they're all over the place to the point they're just really annoying rather than challenging

not trying to be a hater but whenever I've picked up S2 post major patch, it still feel like, beyond the bugs, the whole gameplay experience/balance is v under-refined

I'm hoping alongside the loot rebalance they've looked at mutants too for patch 1.7, feel like I saw a GSC answers that indicates such

[terse bane]

Because GAMMA has much more generic NPCs than Anomaly.

[light hollow]

And even in anomaly they are generic

[bold creek]

i really dont like how you encounter a bloodsucker the very first 20minutes of the game, when in the SoC you found one only after 4-5 hours into the game if not more if you do some optional quest before going to agroprom

[light hollow]

Well, the zone has expanded, so its a bit expected that it happens if you go to unknown territory

[bold creek]

bloodsucker at the start of the game feels like fallout 4 dropping a Deathclaw at the tutorial of the game , complete destruction of the powerlevel of encounters

[light hollow]

Stay safe and I dont think you'll have much problems. Or is it in a bad place?

[bold creek]

they can make explanation of why to put an bloodsuckers , but its simply destroys the misteriousness of the encounter and the surprise factor

[light hollow]

Thats true

[bold creek]

from an design standpoint its counteractive to the ambience of the game

[stiff pasture]

The loss of mystery isn’t just for shits and giggles, multiple Stalkers in game complain about the fact the Zone is mapped out and isn’t a pure mystery anymore. The zone has been around in universe for 15 years with scientists and stalkers studying everything they can, I’m not surprised by the fact it doesn’t have the same feeling

[bold creek]

of course i mean most people already played the OG stalkers, but you can still keep a sense of mistery, before i started playing stalker 2 i thought to myself "i wonder when im gonna find a bloodsucker, maybe they will put one in the wild territory or maybe in the middle of the playthrough 15 hours into the game"
"oh , its the tutorial monster oh well"

they could have build a tension with the fans of the older games by making the bloodsucker wait for as much as they could and then dropping them out of nowhere

[tacit oracle]

That's... contentious. I do agree with you that bloodsuckers (and most other mutants, really) should be almost like special event kind of rare, but on the other hand Call of Pripyat increased the frequency to (at that time) absurd amounts, so I guess one could make a case for both sides.

I will certainly try to mod my game to make any mutants above fleshes to be particularly rare (once alife and the spawn director have been fixed and that's a possibility, ofc)

I personally think mutants in stalker games have never really been that well designed to begin with, but I could see them work as some sort of extra-rare, "elite" kind of mobs. Certainly not something you'd find 2 of every goddamn time you go a few meters down the road from zalissya

[bold creek]

on the opposite for me in this case, i found that mutants are way way more unique than any other game, monsters in other open world feel like different enemies with increased hp and damage, thats it.
In stalker from one mutant to another, the fight feels completely different , the interactions is different, the emotions i feel from a controler to a bloodsucker to a burer and a quimera are completely different.
Thats one of the things older stalker had, every new encounter felt like a new chapter of the story

S2 has uniqueness too but to a lesser extent because of how often you find them and how early you see those special mutants

[wind field]

I have been putting off redownloading the game due to horrible stutter and the semi-lifeless world, has it been a sufficient enough time?

[light hollow]

Its better than release thats for sure, but for the stutters, you should maybe wait for the engine update

[wind field]

beautiful sir, thank you

[alpine hollow]

Strelok and Deggy also shared a lot of knowledge that surely left a paper trail.

Unpopular opinion ahead 🙂
|| There are more bloodsuckers burers and horrors because Duty is in shambles compared to its peak in SoC ||

[dim topaz]

I agree, SoC did bloodsuckers the best. The difference is tho, in cop they went down more easily and didn't knock your ahh on the floor every 2 seconds

[dim topaz]

That's the direction the devs chose to move the zone, so that one is on them. They could have made up some bs about why it's still full of mystery, more space time anomalies, zone expansion forced the perimeter outwards, leaving the deeper parts less explored, etc.
Just because it makes sense doesn't mean it's a good direction

I mean ffs leaving out the cnpp and just going "ah nothing is in there anymore anyway" is just such a copout

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[keen bone]

yeah exactly it makes them so much less exciting

[keen bone]

I don't think they necessarily need new ones, just a rejig of quantities, where you meet certain mutants etc. Like I think Bloodsuckers should be in special locations like research labs rather than all over the place

but I agree I don't think the mutant designs are anything amazing, but I never really thought about the balance in the OG games in a way I do in S2

I played the OG games->Anomaly->S2, so my feedback is with the fact that Anomaly is a mod in mind

I'm thinking worst comes to worst if I still think it's a bit off in a year I'll fix it myself lol

also noticed day/night cycle feels a bit too rapid compared to the OG games/Anomaly for whatever reason

[coarse sparrow]

why #📜┃gsc-answers is so silent

[drifting niche]

NPCs always spawn in squads of at least four

[coarse sparrow]

spamer in chat

[worn oar]

where?

[sly matrix]

Working on it

[pseudo rivet]

Banned

[sly matrix]

Fumbled the autodelete

[worn oar]

banned#

hehe

[mint herald]

Why are they taking thi game from Gamepass. I'm so in to the game now and just now they are shutting it down. Is there an update that its coming back ?

[coarse sparrow]

its not coming back broski, but Steam winter sale is very close 😉

[lost tartan]

Probably just the end of whatever contract or agreement they had with Microsoft, also PS5 release is on the 20th

[mint herald]

I'm on the XBOX and PS5. I think i'm going to buy and start it there then

[lost tartan]

Do we know if PS5 will have mods at release?

[spiral stump]

Who pinged

Spammer?

Okay

[normal comet]

4-5 hours? I went to agroprom in my first 2 hours ._.

[light hollow]

Damn, you rushed it

[bold creek]

how excited are you to face the same bullet sponge enemy 5 times per hour compared to seeing it once every 5hours?

[keen bone]

much more !

that too, mutants are too spongey as well in S2 even with the tweaks they've done. Which IMO gets balanced out by mutant loot, but not played S2 enough to feel out if the mutant loot makes encoutering them feel justified

[rocky shadow]

Idk. i dont feel like they are spongy now

like Bloodsucker has actually less HP, than in OGs

i guess spongyness more comes from what weapons ppl use to kill them, rather than them being spongy.

[coarse sparrow]

I was recently replaying SoC and I met that bloodsucker about 2hrs in

generally SoC is very very short

[rocky shadow]

it is

[coarse sparrow]

true ending is approx 9-10 hrs with relaxed gaming and some backtracking

[bold creek]

yea if you go to agroprom kinda fast you can meet him , but from being in the 3rd map of the game , to then in S2 being in the tutorial of the game ,thats kinda insane. Makes me feel like im playing fallout 4

[coarse sparrow]

yea, I agree, weird choice

[rocky shadow]

S2 is much more simmilar to CoP in this aspect. THere you literaly got AK as first weapon

Also, the intro works as tutorial. YOu are supposed to lose it all and then play normaly gradualy and meet sucker much later

[coarse sparrow]

having AK as a first weapon is fine, they could have just placed few dogs there and it would work as well

[rocky shadow]

could be, yeah

[mint herald]

Is it worth buying the deluxe or ultimate version for the PS5 ?

[rocky shadow]

if you plan to buy expansions later, then yeah

[mint herald]

sorry they do come with a season pass

[rocky shadow]

oh yeah, thast only for Ultimate one. Deluxe is not needed imo, but those bonuses are nice. So worht imo, if you want to support GSC

[mint herald]

ithe ultimate is too expansive maybe i'll do deluxe

[lost tartan]

S2 is $47.99 on gamepass right now (20% off til it leaves on the 15th), with the deluxe edition upgrade costing $24.99. So you could theoretically get from just playing it via gamepass to owning deluxe edition for like $75 which isnt horrible

[rocky shadow]

it was for PS5

[coarse sparrow]

not now atm

you only get some skins and that's it

[mint herald]

okay so the extra's are cosmetics or real gear?

[coarse sparrow]

just cosmetic fluff

nothing p2w

[alpine hollow]

In my first play through, I remember a poltergeist in the prologue, near the shipwreck that’s close to a lit cave

[mint herald]

Never saw the poltiergeist.

[frank vector]

is it true they are changing the name of the Bloodsucker to the GooGobbler in the new patch?

[summer stream]

I feel like half the people playing the game don’t know to use shotguns for mutants

[rocky shadow]

yeah, same. Most of ppl i see complaining about spongyness tries to kill them with AK and etc

Ironicly, i mostly use sniper rifles, bcs they almost one shot them

[brave marten]

i found the mutant specific ammo type for assault rifles to be actually effective as well

[rocky shadow]

It depends. Some mutants has unnecesarily big armor and you need high pene, others need high DMG

[brave marten]

i'd advise you not to say 'pene' to shorten 'penetration' haha

im just saying, an upgraded AK with the proper ammo can be reliable all the way to early end game, but it feels like a lot of people don't bother with different ammo types nor upgrading that much

[rocky shadow]

thats true. I agree

[storm kernel]

im interested in just going raw the whole game, just using a basic AK and PM Makarov and no fancy exoskeletons or anything like that, as a challenge run

[keen bone]

Molt on holiday having some deserved cocktails on the beach

[coarse sparrow]

but he was replying last week?

[keen bone]

I am joking lol who knows. But the guys have been non stop asking people questions for a year now, give them a break

Patch 1.7 soon come, probably when PS5 launches, they don't need to update us every 5 seconds

[stiff pasture]

Truthfully I think that’s why they’ve gone silent, final preparations for a new platform launch, ironing out shit and well probably some legal stuff in the background too

[tawny comet]

When Stalker 2 leaves gamepass, can I just pop my physical disc in and play. I never used the physical because I just downloaded the gamepass version first.

[finite dragon]

Yes

[tawny comet]

Sweet! Thanks

[latent kite]

People use ARs for mutants?

Crazy business

[coarse sparrow]

I wish S2 had territorial war

that would bring a lot of dynamism into the empty map

[empty echo]

Wouldn't be surprised if that was something they add at some point considering its been such a thing in the previous games

[tiny token]

It was only in one previous game and in a broken almost non-functioning state (CS)

[bold creek]

one thing that the game still does... takes my breath away with the graphics, the weather system and lightning effects

[wraith socket]

I miss the close lightning strikes we had when the game first came out.

[bold creek]

they took those away? what?

[lost tartan]

Your screenshots always make me want to wander the zone finding interesting locations

[bold creek]

you cant get striked by lightning anymore?

[wraith socket]

When the game first came out, lightning was very dangerous.
You could have strikes all around you, one after another, very close.
Now you still have lightning, but it's always far away. You almost never
have it hit the ground in front of you. Sure, you can get hit but it's very rare.

[wraith socket]

Yeah, seeing any Player without a shotgun, is just idiocracy.

[bold creek]

well thats better then , i remember getting lightining striked 3 times in a row , thats pretty effing bad luck

[thick wolf]

I just started my first real playthrough of Anomaly and I have yet to find a working shotgun 😅 is that normal?

[wraith socket]

Nothing is normal in Anomaly. One time I left the Rookie Village and touched the grass.
I got so much radiation, and I died because I couldn't afford a 1,200-ruble medkit. Screw that.

[thick wolf]

Ahhh too real

[lost tartan]

I've actually been doing a playthrough using BB with only a single weapon. Ill use shotguns i find in my travels but theyre usually broken and i can only use looted ammo. Its a lot of fun so far, planning on switching to the AS Lavina when i attempt to sneak into pripyat since ive stocked up a ton of AP ammo for it

[zinc apex]

Hello Stalger

[drifting niche]

Meanwhile, the third DLC will be released soon on KCD2.

What if the multiplayer was like a hub area with real players where you could play minigames, sit around a campfire, play guitar, etc.

[zinc apex]

Tbf Warhorse don't work in an active warzone

[zinc apex]

Extraction shooter x Battle Royale hybrid with aggressive monetarisation and battle passes would be my fave

[latent kite]

Isn’t it out?

I’m torn on it don’t know if worth

Legacy of the forge was a bit shit

[drifting niche]

oh yeah, it turns out it was released yesterday

[drifting niche]

I'm just kidding

[latent kite]

Yea idk if I’m gonna jump on it or not tbh

See when the dust has settled

[nimble cipher]

redrickshuhart_stalker has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[zinc apex]

🐺🐺

[worn oar]

[unreal raptor]

Major A-life update in 1.7 — keen to see what this entails!

[zinc apex]

I once again ask for tester role. Because i'm a very cool dude

[ripe patrol]

It's banger

[unreal raptor]

butterbe!

[thick wolf]

yoooo

[ripe patrol]

I think 1.7 will def be the update people have been waiting for to play, asides from engine upgrade patch

[rocky shadow]

the game changer update

[safe badge]

I wish you all a good day be well

[unreal raptor]

Are you in the testing?

[ripe patrol]

Yes

[unreal raptor]

I’ll hold you personally responsible for my hype then! 😂

[drifting niche]

Biggest A-life update since 1.1?

[rocky shadow]

its a major update

[coarse sparrow]

no engine upgrade in 1.7 boys

so it will be in December prayge

[summer stream]

Probably sometime in q1 next year, is my guess

[coarse sparrow]

there was I think 1.3 or 1.4 that had Alife tech

[drifting niche]

What were there?

[coarse sparrow]

Persistent A-Life: stalkers are now living their long, happy lives, unless they meet their end in the Zone as a result of their actions outside the player's view.

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/articles/35302385318545-Patch-1-4-Check-Out-What-s-New

full notes if you feel like reading

[drifting niche]

A-life wasn't changed in 1.4 https://youtu.be/2VXMEqFBXRE?si=7jeTrQ6SStKnkGdB

Those changes about Ai mutants & NPCs

[sly matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/kastor-necromancer-diablo4-necromancer-diablo-gif-1508249292853125307

*Necromances chat*

Chat is a bunch of sleepy skeletons...

[coarse sparrow]

it was hotfixed later or enabled in 1.5

but originally appeared in 1.4

[dim topaz]

The system teally hasnt changed too much, now it's just persistant npcs walking in a straight line or standing still until they die, as opposed to completely disappearing
They still don't have any real objectives other than go from point a to b

And their combat behavior, plus out of combat behavior got some stuff like looting and mutants eating corpsee, but it's really just for show, it's not actually changing any variables, and npcs are still just staying in combat once they engage

[unreal raptor]

yup — I never saw any vast improvements, just less pop in/dissapearing. Still feels like a plaster over the problem.

would love to see some real intelligence come through. A bit more thinking from the AI.

[dim topaz]

Overall npcs are still miles away from the originals, let alone the 2.0 it was promised to be

[dim topaz]

I can wait a few more years to replay the game, maybe by the time they fix it, I actually get a pc that can run it with more than 30-40 fps

[rocky shadow]

Its still far from Clear Sky levels. But its getting there just wait for update

[dim topaz]

Ogs will remember when they told us " oh yes npcs will have faction leaders that dynamically change, there's going to be splinter factions when a power struggle happens, all dynamically" lmao

[worthy zodiac]

I don't remember them saying stuff like this. I think they were talking about stuff like that in a narrative context, not in the "dynamic system" context

[rocky shadow]

i think they shot themself into their legs with this statement, bcs we think, that this was about plans for future and not for release.

[dim topaz]

https://youtu.be/bi17nPEG7jw
19:06
Maybe that's just how i interpreted it given the phrasing, but to be fair that sh didn't happen in the story either lmao

[drifting niche]

I hope the update will be about Alife and not about glorified spawn.

[rocky shadow]

cant leak, but its deffinitely major update

[unreal raptor]

NO MORE SPAWN — ALIFE OR DEATH!

[turbid yarrow]

i recently got all the stalker games and duty seems pretty chill

i iwsh there was more duty in stalker 2

[burnt prairie]

well the lore is that freedom practically wiped them out of ||rostok|| and then they just couldn't find anywhere else to go but pull out of the zone mostly.

[worthy zodiac]

Yeah, I knew you were talking about that segment

[dim topaz]

I may have been wrong but I will still never forgive them

[worthy zodiac]

That's my issue with GSC, kinda. They are too vague when they talk about mechanics and systems so it's very easy for them to say "Nah, we meant THIS, actually". We still have no real definition of what A-Life is

[worn oar]

🤝

[worthy zodiac]

But yeah, judging by the accidental leak that a certain youtuber did... Maybe we'll get something very interesting this time... I hope

[rapid warren]

Hehe

I love muh leaks

#cerifiedstinkypinky leak

*someone please change my nick here

[unreal raptor]

did someone say leaks?

[worn oar]

What leak?

[unreal raptor]

I think the vagueness is really an issue with GSC — either communicate your ideas and ambitions or don't. The conversational, jokey comms really grate on me since things have been undercooked/overpromised from day one.

[worthy zodiac]

The one that Game with Dave posted and then deleted for obvious reasons. Not really a major leak or anything but yeah, you know what I mean, probably

[worn oar]

The shay mod vid?

[worthy zodiac]

Yah

[unreal raptor]

ahhh was the one where NPCS are doing a lot more offline?

[worthy zodiac]

Yea

[unreal raptor]

Mod becomes Vanilla in 1.7?!

[worn oar]

Yeah. It doesn't really count as a leak for the patch itself, but can't say it's not for shay's mod

Either way, here is a leak from me, game will feel really different in a good way.

ig you can understand why I can't really tell much, but sharing this can kinda reassure you a bit maybe?

Game is definitely getting better and better

1.7 will be a major milestone by all means.

[unreal raptor]

You are also now on my hitlist for 1.7 release — you are responsible for my hype sir.

[worn oar]

Shay's mod will still be a mod.

[worn oar]

The reason I decided to talk is that I see how confused you guys are concerning it. I can at least assure that it's good and that's it.

I have no reason to throw a false hype, but I'm certainly enjoying it as whole.

[unreal raptor]

well any movement in the right direction is good — but this sounds like a real leap

[worn oar]

Idk about you guys, it's really good for me and perhaps will be for you too.

Maybe this upcoming week, you can tell me your opinion yourself

[worn oar]

It does sound so, but I promise you that the devs are really trying to get things done as best as they could. They are really trying to improve the game and they are certainly doing so in a steady pace.

We can argue if it's slow rather than steady, but I'm sure it's the right direction.

[rocky shadow]

it does tho rahmi

[nimble cipher]

patnor has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[spiral sun]

7 Days cannot come quicker

first Stalker game. So bloody excited.

Hopefully Patch 1.7 comes out as well before then to nut out more bugs.

[worn oar]

Not really you wouldn't know unless someone with extra knowledge like us notices and say it

[rocky shadow]

You would tho it doesnt work like this in game now, so it shows something, that isnt in game and only way, you can say, that its not leaky is, bcs viewer would assume, that those changes are thanks to mod and not games update, which is maybe even worse than "leak" itself.

[worn oar]

But it was stated that it was a mod feature to begin with, and either way, it's a past event which was salvaged pretty fine haha

[thick wolf]

to what now

[rapid warren]

To sn0rk out more bugs

I cant wait, gotta finish my 4th ending for 1.7

I dunno if im more excited for patch itself or continuatuon of ARG

[unreal raptor]

Someone say snork?

note to self: stop reading GSC-Answers

[midnight vault]

so I’m assuming ps5 peeps will start off at 1.7

[unreal raptor]

PS5 peeps can expect a rocky start I'd imagine.

either on 1.7 or not

[midnight vault]

Yeah I’m sure

[hazy helm]

theyre playing on a overglorified laptop

it would be a bad ride either way

[midnight vault]

Yea PCs overglorified to xD

[ripe patrol]

If Xbox can run the game in sure PS5 pro people will be good

[hazy helm]

Im sure the game will run but the fact its even running S2 is a stain on S2 itself

what can be said however?

[ripe patrol]

Lol we live in a society

We could only dream of what S2 would've been as a PC exclusive

[hazy helm]

https://tenor.com/view/the-dark-knight-joker-2008joker-gif-27536830

[ripe patrol]

Or at least PC first, consoles later

[hazy helm]

can you imagine? stalker 2 on consoles? the madness...

[ripe patrol]

STALKER 2 on Steam Machine

[hazy helm]

thats cool tho

Steam Machine is the best, I love Steam Machine, if you dont like Steam Machine, you are banned, from my mind

ýou dont exist

bc no one would hate Steam Machine

[ripe patrol]

I'll probably skip on it till they have some refurbished versions

Also If they're cheap. I hope they go for mass adoption like steam deck

[drifting niche]

where is this location? #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[drifting niche]

new mechanic in the game - nice

[nova lantern]

Why would an energy drink make you drunk

[drifting niche]

When will npcs be able drink energy drinks?

[graceful cliff]

Whats the average playtime for the story?

And once the story is complete, is the workd just a big open zone to explore ?

[hazy helm]

there is no continue after end of story

[lost tartan]

No, there is a clearly marked "point of no return" at the end of the story. At any point prior to that you can roam freely, however once you proceed past that point the only way to return to the zone to explore is to load an earlier save

[graceful cliff]

crazy

thanks

[drifting niche]

https://youtu.be/MLOfUV_6kVU?si=iaSvdJJwFtT4gv7h

this is too much moaning

[unreal raptor]

Is he bleeding out? I remember my last red bull. Pretty sure a little jittery is all that happened.

[graceful cliff]

whats the point in carrying bodies?

[light hollow]

Roleplaying as a psycho, duh

[summer stream]

They have generally put out a major update with new content and fixes almost every month since release. I’d argue that’s a pretty fast pace. On top of working on the sdk, ps5 port, enhanced trilogy, arg, and dlc. And they’re releasing a book. I’d say that’s really solid, and a lot more than what the vast majority of companies do. Oblivion remastered has had like 1 minor update in 6 months

[graceful cliff]

no officail date on 1.7 ay?

[worn oar]

Next week

[worn oar]

Agreed

[summer stream]

I never understood the uproar about not being able to play after the point of no return. Just make a separate save before the point, and go back and play after you beat the game

[terse jay]

clean quest log, the sensation that it is over

witcher 3 had it right, you were dropped in kaer morhen and the game was in the state before final battle with wild hunt

but then cyberpunk has this weird idea that you get dropped in front of embers with the quest still in your log but then you could pick your ending so whatever I guess

||with strelok ending the game could still continue||

there it makes sense

[coarse sparrow]

20.11

[coarse sparrow]

there is NO free roam

[drifting niche]

What if low HP NPCs get debuff that reduces their accuracy?

[nimble cipher]

notvrairhead has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[empty echo]

Its not drunk, you're twitchy and overcaffienated

[lost tartan]

How much caffeine does a can of NonStop contain?

Can't be more that like 200mg

[graceful cliff]

2000mg

[dim topaz]

Five. Hundred. Miligrams.

[summer stream]

I’m assuming this effect occurs after drinking multiple in a short amount of time. I highly doubt gsc would make energy drinks completely unusable

Everyone on gsc’s posts freaking out over a 10 sec clip of energy drinks

[lost tartan]

Is this that same crypto scam?

Oop, yep <@&1429819918492368916>

[magic coyote]

the new rol colors are nice

[celest portal]

Glad this server has it now, I don't think I remember such role like that existing here previously.

[worn oar]

New one to allow members to summon us without having to waste time checking online mods

Well, instead of one, you summon the whole available ban hungry mods lmao